Cut Cheesecloth Gift Wrapping

Video Transcript

"Okay, now we've wrapped our wine bottle in colored tissue just to give it a lot of color underneath the cheesecloth. This is the cheesecloth, it comes all wrapped up flat and you can find it in the baking isle of your grocery store. If you don't make cheese very often you might not have some on hand, but I would pick some up because it's so handy for gift wrapping purposes. It's kind of like tool only it has more of a shabby, sheek sort of, it's kind of a net. I'm sure there are handy uses for it in the kitchen besides crafts but I use it for crafts. We're going to just open it up so we can measure about how much we want to have. We want to have a generous amount of it so I want it to go up high and then we're going to just trim off a little of this off the side here, so we don't have too much. You're going to look for a square and have your bottle right in the center of it. It doesn't have to be perfect. And now you just gather up all of our ends. Have the little ribbon poking out. Make sure your short ends don't end up making a gap. That was easy. Pleat any areas that have a big flat section and separate any areas that just have too much. Fantastic, and this is going to billow out and that's okay because that's what we're going to need for the next step. Now we're going to take a little piece of ribbon, you can use any kind of ribbon you want. It can be fabric ribbon. I'm just going to use curling ribbon today. I do love curling ribbon. A knot, and we're going to make it fairly tight, we'll go ahead and curl this up while we're here, with closed scissors remember. You don't want anyone to lose a finger over a hostess gift. Now you might find as I often do that the piece of ribbon that you needed to tie your tissue paper with is now no longer necessary, so we're going to trim that off but if you end up leaving it on there, that's fine too."